Funny, profound, absurd, and filled with unexpected beauty, Fulford’s new photobook is a collection of twelve stories drawn from a decade of encounters with Italy. Taking the form of a novel-sized paperback, the book includes meetings with ball-breaking bakers, an exploding museum cellar, Aldo Rossi’s notes on happiness, the center of the Earth, and Guido Guidi’s garage. Published by MACK. 

Jason Fulford (b. 1973) is a photographer and co-founder of J&L Books. He is a Guggenheim Fellow, a frequent lecturer at universities, and has led workshops across the globe. Fulford’s photographs have been described as open metaphors; as an editor and an author, a focus of his work has been how meaning is generated through association. His monographs include Sunbird (2000), Crushed (2003), Raising Frogs for $$$ (2006), The Mushroom Collector (2010), Hotel Oracle (2013), Contains: 3 Books (2016), Clayton’s Ascent (2018), The Medium is a Mess (2018) and Picture Summer on Kodak Film (2020). He is co-author with Tamara Shopsin of the photobook for children This Equals That (2014), co-editor with Gregory Halpern of The Photographer’s Playbook (2014), guest editor of Der Greif Issue 11, and editor of Photo No-Nos (2021).

Sarah Allen is Head of Programme at South London Gallery. She previously worked as a curator at Tate Modern co-curating the major touring survey Zanele Muholi (2020) and co-organizing The Shape of Light: 100 Years of Photography and Abstract Art (2018) and Sophie Taeuber-Arp (2021). She also curated or co-curated displays from Tate's permanent collection including Nan Goldin (2019), David Goldblatt (2019) and Mark Ruwedel (nominated for the Deutsche Borse Photography Prize in 2019). Sarah sits on the Board of Directors of Belfast Photo Festival.